Our post-industrial societies reinvent themselves every day. Advances in the delivery of power and water systems may go unnoticed by the consumer, but over the past 25 years big industry has gradually embraced the digital age in the cause of making their production environments much more stable and efficient. Programmable logic controllers (PLC) developed for control of industrial equipment and processes are now largely implemented across the globe and are used extensively in almost all industrial processes. In many ways that’s good news, but it can be bad news too. Chaos can result when these electronic systems are compromised, so they are highly prized targets for threat actors everywhere. Stories of sabotage are frequently headline news.
Learn how technology advances create security risks for industrial organizations.
Read the IBM X-Force Research Report: Security attacks on industrial control systems
Security Intelligence Staff